From Puppets to Opera

Experience From OPERA

The OPERA experiment aims at observing the ν τ appearance from the CNGS ν µ beam. The ν τ CC interactions are identified by reconstructing the τ decay topology using an Emulsion Cloud Chamber (ECC). OPERA is the first experiment to use emulsion at an industrial scale. It could therefore serve as a model for a future neutrino detector for the so called silver channel of a neutrino factory.

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Moving digital puppets

the term “machinima” has been diluted into different practices using different tools (Nitsche 2007), but we argue in this chapter that game-based machinima remains a form of digital puppetry in which the virtual characters in a real-time game engine are used to perform an event and often to tell a story. The players’ interactions are translated into the movements and expressions of these virtua...

Designing Interactive Blimps as Puppets

In this paper we propose four models of unmanned blimps: Robots, Pets, Agents, and Puppets, according to whether they are autonomous or not and whether they are shown to people or not. Robots and Pets are autonomous and Agents and Puppets are not autonomous. Robots and Agents are shown to people and Pets and Puppets are not shown to people. Based on these models, we approach toward interactive ...

Improvisational Puppets, Actors, and Avatars

We are investigating three kinds of advanced capabilities for computer game characters. First, we want characters to exhibit life-like qualities. They should show distinctive personalities, context-dependent moods, and normal variability in their behavior. Second, we want characters to follow directions . They should accept directions from various external sources, including game designers, gam...